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Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2026
Following on the heels of the Rainbow Writers Cruise, Rory Maxwell and I stayed on the Celebrity Reflection for a back-to-back sailing. Time for the Rainbow Readers Cruise, the biggest year yet with about 50 authors and nearly 200 readers! Monday The mood gets set right away with the “Rainbow Regalia” theme for the first…
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Con Report: Rainbow Writers Cruise 2026
This year, before the Rainbow Readers Cruise, I boarded the Celebrity Reflection a few days early for the Rainbow Writers Cruise! For this 3-day sailing, I enjoyed workshops and activities with my fellow authors, plus time to enjoy being with my “coworkers” in a social setting before the readers joined us. Even more exciting, Rory…
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Con Report: RomantiConn 2026
Last month, I took my last road trip of the summer by heading up to Connecticut for RomantiConn 2026! The scheduling worked out perfectly this year, with me signing on Friday evening and Rory Maxwell signing on Saturday afternoon, so we were able to switch off acting as each other’s table assistant/emotional support human. Thursday…
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Con Report: Pride LitCon 2026
I was delighted to be invited back to Pride LitCon in Richmond, Virginia, earlier this summer! The event expanded to both Saturday (18+) and Sunday (all ages) this year, and my fun variety of books meant that I was able to exhibit at both. Friday Rory Maxwell, travel buddy extraordinaire, and I hit the road…
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Con Report: Balticon 60
I’m here, once again, with a late con report! As always, I had a blast at Balticon this year. This event is a fantastic way to connect with fans, fellow nerds, other industry professionals, and old friends. Though Balticon has phenomenal online programming, I decided to only participate in in-person events this year. Since this…
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Con Report: Farpoint 2026
Do I mean to keep letting so long lapse between attending an event and writing up my con report? No. Does life keep interfering, making this task fall far down my priority lists? Alas, yes. Maryland endured an intense, prolonged cold snap from late January into mid February, resulting in my house experiencing a water…
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Con Report: Capclave 2025
Sooo… Capclave 2025 was nearly 2 months ago, and I am clearly very late with this con report. Long story short: I was really busy the week after the event, and then the government shut down. The stress tried to eat me. It wasn’t pretty. I did have amazing convention, with panels and a reading…
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Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2025
I set sail again last week on the second annual Rainbow Readers Cruise! After having so much fun the year before, I knew this was an event I didn’t want to miss, despite my packed summer travel schedule. With my favorite emotional support human/road-trip adventure friend, Rory Maxwell, we flew down to Florida last Sunday…
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Con Report: RomantiConn 2025
After attending RomantiConn last year as Rory Maxwell‘s assistant, I was thrilled to be invited as an author in 2025! This event focuses on romance, but the organizers have done an amazing job of mixing various subgenres and gender pairings. Though we were only signing on Saturday, Rory and I made a weekend of this…
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Con Report: Pride Litcon 2025
A mere week after getting home from my epic West Coast adventure, I hit the road again! This time, for another new event a little closer to home. Pride Litcon was a single-day book signing in Richmond, Virginia, and yet another new event that I hope continues for years to come. I picked up fellow…
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Con Report: Queers & Quills 2025
When this brand new event was announced in spring of 2024, I submitted an interest form simply because you miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. I was both shocked and thrilled to be accepted as a signing author to the first Queers and Quills! I hadn’t been back to the West Coast…
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Con Report: Read the Rainbow 2025
A year or so ago, a queer romance book convention made a questionable decision to change the location of their annual event. In response, multiple new events celebrating queer fiction (romance or otherwise) have sprung up. As a fairly new author to this genre, I’ve been excited to take advantage of these opportunities. I recently…
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Con Report: Farpoint 2025
Last weekend I had a great, chill time at one of my favorite SF/F conventions, Farpoint! Since this is a local event for me, a mere 20 minutes from my house, I commuted instead of staying at the event hotel. I also had a relatively light schedule, compared to most cons where I’m a presenter…
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Con Report: Northern Rainbow Romance Retreat 2024
To say the past 2 months have been rough for me is an understatement even before the U.S. election results this week. I’m slowly getting all of my projects back on schedule and catching up on the epic to-do list, and today’s task is finally writing up my convention report for the first Northern Rainbow…
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Con Report: Capclave 2024
When I posted my schedule for this event last week, I was shocked to realize that it had been five years since I last attended Capclave in person, between conflicting commitments and other “unprecedented events.” Since I live between Baltimore and Washington DC, I consider this con my other “home” convention, and I was delighted…
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Con Report: Rainbow Readers Cruise 2024
You know I love cruises. You know I love conventions. You better believe that I was one of the first people signed up when this convention on a cruise was announced! Even more exciting (and possibly appropriate), the Rainbow Readers Cruise 2024 was also my first official appearance in my new romance author guise. Then…
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Con Report: RomantiConn 2024
Last weekend, I had a blast attending RomantiConn 2024 up in Connecticut as author Rory Maxwell‘s minion/emotional support human! I couldn’t turn down the opportunity when she invited me to take her PA ticket to meet some of my favorite authors and get a crash course from the inside of how romance author events differ…
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Con Report: Balticon 58
I’m once again late in posting a con report, and I can’t even blame con crud this time! Instead, I was busy finally finishing the first draft of my next novel. Good news: It’s done, and now you get a con report! I missed out on Balticon last year because I was on a cruise…
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Con Report: ApollyCon 2024
Last year, I had the pleasure of becoming friends with another MM romance author relatively local to me, Rory Maxwell. Our friendship has been fantastic for writing support, both virtual and in-person working dates. And it’s a good thing we hit it off so well because we promptly planned a ton of events together! We…
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Con Report: Farpoint 2024
I usually try to get my con reports written and posted by the Wednesday after the event. Unfortunately, I came down with an awful sinus infection right after attending this event, which is why my write-up of Farpoint 2024 was delayed a week. Though the resulting con crud was awful, I still had an overall…
